Comparison

BookHabit vs ShelfMark

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

BookHabit

This app helps you organize your personal library, track reading progress, and gain insights into your reading habits. It allows you to make notes, export bibliographies, and visualize your reading history over time. Designed for all types of readers, it supports a vast collection of books and ensures your data is secure.

Highlights
  • Organize reading lists
  • Add books by barcode or search
  • Track reading progress and history
  • Custom lists and sorting
  • Make and search notes
  • Export bibliographies
  • Visualize reading habits
Features
Currently charting
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BookHabit is the highest-quality reading and book tracker, library organizer, notetaker and reading companion for iOS. For anyone from casual to avid readers, students, self-learners, parents & kids, book clubs, eBook readers, closet librarians, etc. Gain insights into your reading habits. Finish books more quickly, get back to books you've set aside, organize your library, and learn more about what and who you love to read. Develop a rich history of your reading life, visualize your life in books over the years, bring up notes easily, pass book suggestions to friends. Features include: • Many ways to organize your reading lists • Easily add books by barcode or author / title search • Track your reading progress and history • Organize and sort books with custom lists • Make notes and easily find & search • Export professional bibliographies (APA, MLA, etc.) • Graphs charting your reading history • Sophisticated but simple to use book search • Hierarchical lists • Visualize and improve your reading habits • Rate books while you read • Track books by kind (paper, eBooks, reference) • Create libraries of thousands of books • Complete backup & transfer system • Inverted screen support / dark theme • Support for all iPhone sizes • Support for all iPads—from Minis to Pros! BookHabit is NOT an eBook reader, but it can be used with ALL types of books — including electronic books — to organize and track your reading progress. Information you collect over time in BookHabit is intended to last! Great care is taken to make sure you never lose that information. None of your personal data is shared with third parties. No ads, no promotions, just you and your books.

About

ShelfMark

Features
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A quiet reading tracker for people who love books more than apps. ShelfMark keeps your reading life in one calm, paper-warm place. Log the page you are on, keep a streak alive, and save the lines worth keeping. No account, no feed, no noise. MADE FOR READERS - Three shelves: to be read, reading, and finished. Move a book with a tap. - Quick page updates with percent complete, pages a day, and time left at your current pace. - A daily page goal beside your grace-day reading streak. - Search your library, filter by genre, and sort by recency, title, author, or progress. - A quote wall with the book, page number, and an optional photo of the page. - A yearly reading goal and Wrapped view with pages, streaks, genres, fastest reads, and monthly activity. - A private Home and Lock Screen widget for your current book, pages today, goal, and streak. - A complete local backup, additive restore, and Delete All My Data control. FREE AND LIFETIME ShelfMark is free for up to 3 books and 5 saved quotes. Reading progress, streaks, daily and yearly goals, search, backup, restore, deletion, and the widget stay useful without paying. A single Lifetime purchase unlocks unlimited books and quotes, the 30-day Reading Pulse, finish-date pace plans, full Wrapped statistics, and the one-page Reading Year PDF. It is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Existing records always remain readable and editable. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your reading library stays locally on your iPhone or iPad. No account, no analytics, and no tracking. Widget content uses Apple's private on-device App Group storage and is marked privacy sensitive.

Screenshots

BookHabit4 screens
ShelfMark4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ShelfMark at Free against BookHabit's $4.99. ShelfMark also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). BookHabit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#193 vs unranked). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ShelfMark is free to download; BookHabit costs $4.99 up front. ShelfMark sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BookHabit asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BookHabit ships an update every 3 months, ShelfMark weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
BookHabit versus ShelfMark: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookHabitShelfMark
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#193 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHyperJeff, IncInnovaLabWorks

In-app purchases

None

BookHabit

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

ShelfMark

One-time1
  • ShelfMark Lifetime$12.99

Questions

Is BookHabit free?
BookHabit costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ShelfMark free?
ShelfMark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BookHabit or ShelfMark have ads?
Neither BookHabit nor ShelfMark shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BookHabit or ShelfMark?
BookHabit ships an update every 3 months, and ShelfMark weekly. Most recently, BookHabit was updated on October 15, 2026 and ShelfMark on October 3, 2026.

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